Pretentious Yet Pointless
``The artist is more a facilitator than an authoritarian with his materials and thus expresses `sympathy with matter'.''
[Robert Morris: Works of the Eighties, p.26., Edward F. Fry and Donald P. Kuspit]
Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1517232075 |
| Date: | Sat Oct 10 21:19:42 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
A particularly contentious aspect of this sculpture is the shapes
contrasting strongly with
the world of the senses of sight and touch so clearly visible.
The impersonal forms and industrial colours
of
Sol Aris's other works are
still present,
but
in a different form.
Such forms, serene and tranquil, create strong gestalt sensations.
Semiotically,
we see the
diagonal axis
representing
the inner ego
curve back and forth,
suggesting
unreliability.
Paradoxically,
we see the
leading centralism
for
the inner ego
undulate towards the centre of the sculpture,
suggesting
inconstancy.
A perpetually
changing
evanescence,
the relationship of the viewer
of which
remains unchanged,
is always irrefutably altered
by the perception
of the environment.
The painting shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
``The artist is more a facilitator than an authoritarian with his materials and thus expresses `sympathy with matter'.'' [Robert Morris: Works of the Eighties, p.26., Edward F. Fry and Donald P. Kuspit] |
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